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The numerical value returned by oracle might physically match the address of the stack slot for 'x', assuming that it exists, but it doesn't mean that, from a language point of view, it is a valid pointer.

If forging pointers had defined behaviour, it would be impossible to use the language sanely or perform any kind of optimization.



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